Earth’s protective ozone layer is healing at a pace that will fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a United Nations report has found.
The scientific assessment conducted every four years found a recovery in progress, more than 35 years after every nation in the world agreed to stop producing chemicals that deplete the ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere. The layer shields the planet from harmful radiation linked to skin cancer, cataracts and crop damage.
The progress is slow, according to the report presented on Monday at the American Meteorological Society convention in Denver. The global average amount of ozone 30km (18 miles) high in the atmosphere won’t be back to 1980 pre-thinning levels until about 2040, the report said. And it won’t be back to normal in the Arctic until 2045.
The giant hole in the layer that develops every year over Antarctica won’t be fully fixed until 2066, the report said.
Al Jazeera’s Fintan Monaghan reports.
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Lol just like subhuman ashramchaap claim they invented toilets while pooping on streets lol 😆 😂 🤣
They don’t tolerate when toilets cleaner gandus show their bravery only in comments section lol 😆 😂 🤣
Cause skin cancer to your people not our African people and you people didn’t do anything to repair it . Nature heals itself so stop the lies 😂😂😂😂😂
CFC meaning?
Probably cloro fluro carbon?
Friend of KFC 😝
Is it not contradictory report against the catastrophe of climate change which causing unusual cold and heat.
True
Different problems. Ozone has nothing to do with global warming, it’s to do with UV radiation
@Freeman but both of these environmental problems have a common cause: human activities that release pollutants into the atmosphere altering it.
@Nature girl Did you watch the video? It’s not pollution or greenhouse gasses but an aerosol called CFC that was depleting the Ozone. It was banned back in 1987.
Ozone layer: 🥴
Finally some good news about the environment
Back in the 80’s when they banned cfc’s we were on track to heal the Ozone by 2020. Think about it.
Every person can do something to take care of our planet 🌍
Fake news
The ozone layer and global warming is totally separate from each other!!
Please don’t confuse the two 😉
Saying they are totally separate is not quite correct, but they do not have a 1:1 causal connection.
Climate change crisis…. Nothing meaningful done in the last 40 years.
Cfc gas efficient the ozone layer = immediate global response…..
And we are meant to believe their is a so called climate crisis 👏👏👏👏👏👍
China in INVOLVED in destroying everything for profit, YES
Ah good 👍
I hope this is true, some good news is rare to come by nowadays 😒 – Until now
The poor and the oppressor meet each other,
[yet] the eyes of both of them Yahweh enlightens.
Ozone depletion and climate change are linked in a number of ways, but ozone depletion is not a major cause of climate change. Atmospheric ozone has two effects on the temperature balance of the Earth. It absorbs solar ultraviolet radiation, which heats the stratosphere.